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What is Prayer?

Prayer is an active effort to communicate with a deity or spirit either to offer praise, to make a request, seek guidance, confess sins, or simply to express one's thoughts and emotions. The words of the prayer may either be a set hymn or incantation, or a spontaneous utterance. Read more...Click to read more below

Reasons used & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons used # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
spiritual enlightenment 16 3
Other 7 1
General health 6 1
Support another treatment 5 1
Hopelessness 3 1
Anxiety and fear 2 1

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
0 0%
None
7 100%

Schedules

Top 10 dosages based on patients currently using Prayer. See all 22 dosages

  100 hr all the time (24/7) 1440 min all the time (24/7) 15 min all the time (24/7) 15minutes as needed 25minutes as needed 30 min all the time (24/7) 5minutes as needed 0.5 hours daily 1 hr daily 2 hr daily 15 min weekly 40 min every other week 3 min daily 5 min daily 5 other daily 10 min daily 15 min daily 20 min daily 25 min daily 30 min daily 45 min daily 60 min daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 7 Number of Patients: 7 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 6 Number of Patients: 6 2 Number of Patients: 2 4 Number of Patients: 4  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using Prayer (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other
1 50% Other: 50%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped using Prayer

Currently Using Prayer

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
0
7
2
13

Stopped Using Prayer

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
1
0
0
0

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
3 43%
Usually
3 43%
Sometimes
1 14%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
1 14%
A little
2 29%
Not at all
4 57%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
4 57%

Report created on November 23, 2009.